Performance - Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

Serious Sam 2
Little Trouble @ 800x600x32
Desktop 3.06GHz

Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz

Sager NP8886 2.8GHz

Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000)

134.4

107.6

104.3

64.9

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0
|
27
|
54
|
81
|
108
|
134
|
161

Unlike Unreal Tournament 2003, which places stress on the video portion of a system, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is very CPU dependent. The graph above shows what we should expect at a low resolution in the game. It is interesting to note that the 2.8GHz processor at the heart of the NP8886 was only 3% behind the 3.06GHz processor that powered the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator.

Serious Sam 2
Little Trouble @ 1024x768x32
Desktop 3.06GHz

Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz

Sager NP8886 2.8GHz

Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000)

99.1

76.8

73.6

46.7

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0
|
20
|
40
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59
|
79
|
99
|
119

The story is pretty much the same as the resolution is increased to 1024x768x32. The gap between the Hypersonic machine and the Sager one increases slightly here to 4%. Both systems are still dominated by the power of the Radeon 9000 Pro in our desktop system.

Serious Sam 2
Little Trouble @ 1280x1024x32
Desktop 3.06GHz

Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz

Sager NP8886 2.8GHz

Dell Inspiron 8200 2.0GHz (Mobility Radeon 9000)

66.4

50.7

48.2

30.6

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0
|
13
|
27
|
40
|
53
|
66
|
8

The lead offered by the Hypersonic machine over the Sager one creeps up to 5% while at 1280x1024x32 but the story still remains essentially the same: the faster the processor in the notebook, the faster Serious Sam 2 plays.

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